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Flooding from the sky

THESE spectacular photographs show the full extent of the past week’s flooding in Oxford and surrounding areas. The pictures were taken by Air Experiences, a company founded last year by Rachel McCombie and Lee Ingram, offering people the opportunity to take to the skies whether for fun or for business. For more details visit airexperiences.co.uk

The River Thames swells from Wolvercote to Swimford

Only the railway tracks appear to have escaped the flooding at Hinksey, Oxford

Abingdon Road to the right of the photo during the worst of this week's misery

Looks like these floods are nearly as bad as those in 1947. About a dozen images of these floods are available free on the "Britain from Above" website: http://www.britainfr
omabove.org.uk/

These old images are mainly shot from the North so bit difficult to compare, but flooding alongside what is now the A34 looks similar to the 2014 floods.
(If you register on the Britain from Above website then you can zoom in and see a lot more detail).

Could be two possibilities for two similar floods 67 years apart: global warming doesn't really exist or all that post war promiscuity had the same effect in invoking Gods wrath as was recently suggested by a certain Henley councillor!

Fantastic images.
Looks like these floods are nearly as bad as those in 1947. About a dozen images of these floods are available free on the "Britain from Above" website: http://www.britainfr
omabove.org.uk/
These old images are mainly shot from the North so bit difficult to compare, but flooding alongside what is now the A34 looks similar to the 2014 floods.
(If you register on the Britain from Above website then you can zoom in and see a lot more detail).
Could be two possibilities for two similar floods 67 years apart: global warming doesn't really exist or all that post war promiscuity had the same effect in invoking Gods wrath as was recently suggested by a certain Henley councillor!Cityview